Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...observers say that Gregorian's ability to make academia seem exciting and important will be of equal help in his efforts to bring talented scholars to the Providence, R.I., campus...
...Millions of people know the secret of Skin So Soft. Do you?" reads the advertisement. Avon, the door-to-door cosmetics giant, is coy about the bath oil's secret. But it seems to be this: when mixed in equal parts with water and applied to the body, Skin So Soft (price: $8.99 a pint) makes the wearer smell like a flower bed, but for some reason repels bugs. Avon claims to be baffled about why this is so, but the bath oil's reputation has spread by word of mouth. Among the devotees: former President Jimmy Carter, who uses...
More than two weeks passed without further word. Then on Aug. 15 Hearin received a handwritten letter with an Atlanta postmark. In it Annie implored her husband to pay the ransom. Hearin wrote twelve checks for a total of $1 million, equal to the amount of the court judgments against those named on the list...
...Orleans convention was supposed to reveal the real George Bush to the American electorate. In that, it certainly succeeded, both for better and for worse. On Thursday night the Vice President delivered a stirring acceptance speech that was the equal of Michael Dukakis' oratorical triumph in Atlanta. In a strong, I'm-the-guy-in-charge-now voice, Bush fused masterful metaphors and political put-downs with his campaign themes of family, freedom and the future. He adroitly portrayed himself as both the heir to Reaganism and his own man, ready to take his seat at the big desk...
...toeing the mark?" The most revealing thing George has ever said about his father occurs in the letter he wrote to Hynes, where he compares his own father with Hynes' for being unable to express love. Bush, 6 ft. 2 in., would never consider his own feats the equal of his father's -- who was 6 ft. 4 in., of commanding presence and with a record in wartime, at Yale, and in Washington that seemed to transcend criticism. The utter probity of his father is so obvious to Bush that even when the older man went into partisan politics...